Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish writer

Lived from: 1854 - 1900

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 october 1854 Died: 30 november 1900

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  • Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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  • Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
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  • My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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  • Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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  • Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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  • Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
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  • No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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  • No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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  • No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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  • No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
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  • No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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  • No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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  • No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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  • Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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  • None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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  • Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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  • Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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  • Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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  • Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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  • Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
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